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I know that salary is discussed on here all the time and ppl get tired of answering questions....but my question is more in regards to what one makes as a new grad RN and how their pay increases from that point. Does pay increase a certain amount o...

Just think, LPNs are nurses too and they only have 1 year of training....and believe it or not there are LPNs who can run circles around BSN grads as far as skills, knowledge, and experience. Ill be curious as to how this pans out over the years....i...

Love your post and I can relate in a lot of ways. First, I was an LPN and I was 27 when I went back for my RN. It was a bridge program so most were 2nd career (Respiratory Therapists, LPNs and Paramedics), therefore I was actually the 2nd youngest pe...

congratulations! Ive been applying for L&D jobs for the past 2 years myself with never even an interview...and finally got hired a couple of months ago and Ive never been happier as a nurse :)

what do you guys do when there is a c/s? Our minimum staff at night is 5 and a c/s takes 4 of them off the floor, leaving 1 person to watch the whole floor.

There are plenty of brilliant OB nurses out there who started in OB from the beginning. I value my med/surg experience and feel my learning curve is a little less steep, but if I had the opportunity to go into OB straight out of school I would have t...

there are plenty of other travel companies and possibly even a different recruiter with the same company out there if you want to travel later on down the road, but this opportunity may not come back around.

So, Belle.....what did you end up deciding??? :)

How would I go about becoming a provider in TN? Our system is called Tenncare here. I did private duty peds through an agency for a few years as an LPN and now Im an RN. My husband is in LPN school. I thought when he finishes we could both become pro...

Does it have to be in VA? I applied to University of Texas at Arlington's online program (no clinical requirement) and should be starting in January. Check the distance learning board, there are many programs that dont charge out of state tuition fo...

Also consider peds home health. PSA (Pediatric Services of America) and Maxim Healthcare specialize in private duty peds with chronically ill kids. Most have g tubes and some have trach's and some are on vents. When I was an LPN and while I was in RN...

Ive applied to both about a month ago, and so far the process seems to be going much faster from University of Texas at Arlington bc I havent heard anything from Ohio University other than when I initially applied. Id love to hear from people in eit...

Is there any way you can point me to the article? This sounds like a great idea for the unit I just started training on. Staffing is scarce and there are a lot of new grads and new to OB nurses and few experienced nurses left at the moment. This woul...

more than likely nothing will come of it. I remember getting reamed by a Dr as a new grad for not calling results on a low K+ level. It wasnt critical, but it was low and what I was taught in orientation was we had to call criticals. The nurse manage...

Keep in mind you will more than likely train on days even if u are hired for nights because there are more learning opportunities....sadly nowdays most labors are scheduled inductions and scheduled c sections which happen during the day. At night u w...

I politely beg to differ. LPN was a stepping stone to becoming an RN for me. I was in the process of taking my RN prereq's and was discouraged that the generic track RN program had a waiting list of about 2 years after completing the pre reqs. I coul...

How much nursing experience and/or OB nursing experience do you feel is needed to be a good CNM? Ive been a nurse for a few years, and just started working on an LRDP unit. It has been a long term goal to become a CNM, but it was something I put in t...

gijen, I lived in Orlando for several years and took the LPN to RN bridge at Valencia CC. Is that where you are going? If you need an easy job while you are in school that is flexible, look into Maxim Home Healthcare (peds HH). Thats what I did when ...

I take that to mean that it is in fact your RN degree that they will use the gpa from. You sound a lot like me, I also took a LPN to RN bridge and my gpa was good (I think 3.4 or 3.5) but my overall gpa isnt so hot bc I was 18 the first time I tried ...

My suggestion is to be a little bit of a pest...sometimes you have to make yourself known. Show up and introduce yourself to the nurse manager and "sell" yourself by letting her know you applied for the position and how much you really want to work t...

I took the bridge program at Valencia Community College in Orlando, totally online except exams (midterms, finals) and clinicals (1 12 hour clinical a week)...the first few weeks you have to be on campus a lot for "lab". Then at the end you have a pr...

check out the distance learning forum under the student section. A few popular, reasonably priced programs you may want to research are University of Wyoming, Ohio University, University of Texas at Arlington. There are more, but those are three tha...

Hello, Im an ASN ready to go back for my BSN. I didnt have to take Chemistry for my ASN program and would prefer a program that doesnt require it so I can go ahead and start asap. Does anyone know which schools do not require chemistry? Thanks in adv...

Make sure you have solid answers, especially why you want to work there. Present yourself as confident and assertive. You want to get your point across that you really want to be there, you are upbeat, positive, and eager to learn, you will advocate ...

I am a CNM hopeful and I am interested in connecting with CNMs in my region to try to shadow and want to possibly train as a birth assistant. When I was living in GA, I went to a free standing birth center to have my son and they were going to hire m...